Some of you might remember when a 3mb flash animation could pack in some 5 minutes of animation, with the more advanced ones even having chapter/scene selectors, which could also include clickable easter eggs and other kinds of interactions during the scenes.

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[–] [S] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My nostalgic sigh is about animations that became rasterized videos, thus losing any chance at being interactive or hiding easter eggs.

I am glad we no longer have sites made in pure flash, but now we have different stupid shit that also blocks back/forward navigation, fucks up scroll bars, hogs the CPU and crashes the browser for no good reason.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Those last things you listed were all true of Flash too:

    1. Back forward buttons, working in a flash site?
    2. Scroll bars? Same thing.
    3. CPU usage? Same thing. (See: phone performance.)
    4. Crashes? It was the number one cause of crashes as reported by Apple when looking at their Safari crash logs. This was true of many plugins of that style from back in the day (being unstable).
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